Ice Cream Shop and Restaurant Mini Golf Course Builder

The eatertainment industry is experiencing double-digit growth, with venues combining dining and entertainment outperforming traditional food service establishments. As an ice cream shop and restaurant mini golf course builder, Harris Miniature Golf Courses transforms your business into a destination that drives longer visits and higher spending.

Are You Maximizing Your Property’s Potential?

Your customers arrive, order and leave within 30 minutes to an hour. Unused land generates zero income. Weekend wait times frustrate guests. Off-peak hours leave your dining room half-empty. Meanwhile, strong food and beverage margins need strategies to increase dwell time and capture more revenue per visit.

Industry data shows that when customers engage with entertainment at dining venues, they order additional rounds of appetizers and beverages. Family entertainment centers report average dwell times exceeding three hours, with food and beverage accounting for 28% of total revenue.

Your property has the same potential when you provide compelling reasons for families to stay longer and return more often.

Turn Your Establishment into a Profitable Family Destination

A custom mini golf course transforms your restaurant or ice cream shop into an experience-driven destination through high-margin, low-overhead revenue diversification. Families planning golf outings allocate significantly more time to quick meal stops than to golf. They order food before their round, request treats during play and return for dessert afterward.

Your existing infrastructure serves more customers without additional kitchen or dining square footage. Ice cream shops extend operating seasons beyond summer peaks, while restaurants drive traffic during slow periods and convert waiting guests into revenue-generating participants.

Custom Restaurant Mini Golf Course Designs

As a restaurant mini golf course builder, Harris conducts comprehensive site analysis, examining topography, visibility and access to optimize layouts without interfering with parking or dining areas.

Our restaurant mini golf course design accounts for sight lines from dining windows, creating visually appealing landscapes for diners and players while allowing staff monitoring from existing stations.

Nine-hole layouts deliver authentic experiences in smaller footprints for properties with limited land. Larger properties can accommodate 18-hole championship courses, positioning you as the premier family dining destination.

During peak hours, courses entertain waitlist guests, transforming lost sales into captured revenue. During slower periods, courses can attract incremental business independently.

Engaging Ice Cream Shop Mini Golf Course Designs

For ice cream shop owners, custom mini golf converts brief transactions into extended visits, generating multiple purchases. As an ice cream shop mini golf course builder, Harris designs courses that are calibrated for family-centric demographics, with approachable difficulty levels that engage all ages.

Our ice cream shop mini golf course design features colorful landscaping, water features and natural challenges that encourage photo opportunities. These memorable moments generate organic social media marketing, expanding reach without advertising expenses. Families planning a round of golf inevitably purchase ice cream before or after, often both.

Courses create destinations worthy of 20-minute drives, expanding customer radius beyond immediate neighborhoods. Birthday parties book courses and party rooms, commanding premium pricing with high-volume sales.

TESTIMONIALS

What our clients are saying...

We have seven attractions and miniature golf is, by far, the most profitable.

Their entire team is experienced, professional, dedicated and committed to building the finest, quality miniature golf facilities. Harris projects are designed & built to provide an enjoyable entertainment experience for all generations. Harris can be trusted to deliver, because they care about people.

Harris helped us make decisions and steered us in the right direction.

It was incredible working with the team at Harris. I never saw a group of guys work so hard in my life. No matter what issues they encountered on site, they just made it all happen.

Adding miniature golf to our 50-year-old family business, which includes a dairy farm and ice cream shop, was the best decision we could have made. The golf course is consistently busy and we have seen an increase of more than 40 percent in our ice cream sales.

The adventure golf has been a great success and has far exceeded our expectations on the amount of people playing even through the winter periods. We have just had a two week Easter break and the adventure golf was extremely busy Roll on the summer.

Working with Harris was fantastic from day one! When you are going into a new business, it’s important to have trust. Harris helped us make decisions and steered us in the right direction. They treated us like family and still do.

I wanted a miniature golf course that adults and teenagers could enjoy – not just little kids. I wanted something spectacular, different. Harris built us a beautiful course that’s fair, but challenging – the perfect mix. The kids like it and so do the adults. Rich and the team at Harris are outstanding! Anything you want, they'll do it.

The great thing about Harris Mini Golf is the years of experience they bring to course design. This experience resulted in a course that has seen many return visits and smiles on faces! From first design to the crew working on site I can honestly say that working with Harris Mini Golf has been one of the best decisions I have ever made and with close on 40,000 visitors during this first year there’s the proof of the success that well designed course can bring to your attraction.

It was fun to watch the guys work and bring the course to life. The crew was always looking to improve the design whenever possible. They really wanted it to be as good as it could be!

It’s unbelievable the job Harris did on our small 90-by-100-foot piece of property. They built two large stone waterfalls, two streams and a pond with a small waterfall. The course plays beautifully. I never thought they could do such a wonderful job on such a small piece of property.

I have had 11,000 customers pass through my doors in the past 35 days and every single person takes not just a minute, but sometimes five, 10 or 20 minutes, to tell me how much they love the course. If they are down for a weeks’ vacation, they come back three or four times because the kids love it so much. Everyone says it’s the nicest course they have ever played.

The people at Harris were efficient, effective and flexible. I was on site every day during construction and the guys were always asking me for my input. They would take what I suggested and make it happen. They were on time and on budget, which was an absolute delight! Best of all, I’ve made a ton of money in the miniature golf business.

The folks at Harris miniature golf were great to work with. Jim and team did a great job laying out the course and staying on schedule. The feedback from customers has been nothing but positive. Thank you Harris for a beautiful course, definitely a place we’re customers can make memories!

We rebuilt our course from the ground up in 2023 and we could not have asked for a better partner than Harris Mini Golf. From the moment we started the design process they focused on making the process as stress free as possible.

Harris Mini Golf was our best choice to create and build our mini golf course. We felt comfortable with Harris and our rep, Pat from the very first email and phone call. Harris provided us with useful materials which made the dream that more tangible. Everyone we worked with in the planning stage was knowledgeable and prompt in answering all of our questions.

In researching the Mini Golf Contractors throughout the country, for the Highest Quality at the Fairest Price, a decision was made to award this project to Harris Miniature Golf Course Inc. The Harris team from day one was professional, friendly, and willing to make this challenging course become a reality.

Harris went above and beyond to make our course everything we asked for. Sal and family helped us every step of the way, from land development, meetings, multiple redesigns, and adjustments. The construction crew that Harris used was also extremely friendly, knowledgeable and accountable.

The Harris Difference: A Partnership With Mini Golf Experts

Profitability requires partnering with specialists. Harris brings 65+ years of focused expertise exclusively in custom mini golf. We are professional landscape architects and design-build specialists with comprehensive in-house capabilities. Our team of landscape architects, project managers and construction crews ensures quality control and delivers courses built for decades of heavy use.

Harris provides complimentary custom design services reflecting our confidence in proven capabilities. Our landscape architects prepare detailed topographic surveys and site-specific plans, designing custom-built courses rather than generic templates. We engineer proper maintenance access, install commercial-grade irrigation and use materials that withstand weather and intensive play.

Start Planning Your New Attraction Today

Request your free Miniature Golf Investor’s Kit for comprehensive feasibility information, including ROI projections, site requirements, operational considerations and case studies.

For owners ready to visualize custom courses on their property, request a complimentary design consultation. Our landscape architects analyze your site, discuss your objectives and develop preliminary visualizations tailored to your space and customers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some frequently asked questions about our mini golf courses:

How does a mini golf course impact operations?

Harris designs require minimal staffing since customers are self-directed. Point-of-sale integration allows existing staff to handle admissions alongside food orders. Courses operate independently of kitchens, generating revenue without straining capacity. Clients report reduced waitlist abandonment, extended dwell time, increased food and beverage sales, and new revenue during slow periods.

What return on investment should owners expect?

Harris clients consistently report payback periods of one to two years. Owners document significant increases in food and beverage sales from extended visits. Courses function as marketing assets, attracting new customers and increasing visit frequency. Harris provides a detailed feasibility analysis through our Investor’s Kit.

Does Harris provide post-construction support?

Our ongoing partnership includes comprehensive support with maintenance guidance, operational best practices and responsive assistance. Landscape architects design courses using proven materials to minimize maintenance requirements. We remain available, ensuring optimal performance for decades, reflecting our 65+ years as specialists in mini golf.

Mini Golf Course Design for Ice Cream Shops & Restaurants